It may be worth mentioning that going to the ergodox layout requires a not insignificant learning curve. I can type at a fast speed (around 144 WPM before losing accuracy) on a standard board, but trying to pick up the new layout was really painful - I eventually ended up selling mine after a month of trying to adapt.

Part of this is my weird typing style (I occasionally cross fingers over to the other side of the board to type certain words at certain times - you can't do this on a split board), and part of this are function keys and enter being placed right around the spacebar area, in a zone where you normally can just depress your thumb and not have to think about the positioning too much.

I had the same weird typing style but really wanted to use the split ortholinear keyboard layout due to some pain I was feeling in my forearm

Adapting to the layout was frustrating. It took me a week of standard use to not have typos. About a month to lock down the location of modifier keys and layer layouts.

Was it worth it? In my case, absolutely. The pain in my forearms disappeared. I also type "properly" on standard staggered keyboards now.

It turns out that in my case, the weird typing style was part of why I was feeling pain in my forearms in the first place.

out of curiosity, how wide apart do you place the two halves of your split keyboard?

i recently got one, and been wondering if i should place them full shoulder width apart or not.